H5N1 detected in humble seagull threatens to spread bird flu beyond the beach
Unlike other birds detected with the virus so far in Australia, seagulls travel beyond coastal environments to more urban and inland areas too.
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It's hard not to think of Australia's hotel quarantine system during the COVID-19 pandemic while waiting to see what would happen with the animal equivalent, a global bird flu panzootic, on our shores.
In the early stages of the COVID response we were given the daily numbers of returning Australians testing positive to the virus.
All the while we held our breath waiting to see if it would spread out into the wider community.
It's been a similar feeling as migratory birds from Antarctic waters started washing up in mid-June with the H5N1 avian influenza that has swept the globe killing millions of animals.
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